The rain stopped moments before Friday’s Little Norway Festival Parade. Heidi Lee leads the Leikarring Dancers down mainstreet. See pages 17 and 18 for more festival photos.
Borealis Brass visited Petersburg for the first time and played several times during the Little Norway Festival including a mini concert at Assembly Chambers and a concert at The Holy Cross House. Members of the group are University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty Dr. Karen Gustafson, trumpet, Jane Aspnes, horn, John Aspnes, tuba, and Dr. James Bicigo, trombone, who perform as soloists and with ensembles in North America, Europe and Asia. They were joined by Petersburg’s Campbell Longworth and Bud Bergen.
Holding Kade and his Farmor (grandmother) Brenda Norheim wearing her Honafoss Bunad
Long time Vikings Bucky Eddy (left) and Andy Wright holding some mini-vikings as they tow the Viking ship Valhalla in Friday’s parade.
Glo Deboer Wollen and Sharon Wikan representing the Sons of Norway in the Parade
Valkyries Laurel McCullough and Angela Christensen wave to parade attendees from aboard Valhalla
Petersburg’s own Mitkof Mummers, directed by Irene Littleton, took the stage for three performances of the Musical Melodrama “Way Out West In A Dress” Thursday, Friday and Saturday night in Wright Auditorium
Local choreographer Mindy Anderson helped the Mummers put together the dance routines for saloon gals Debi Tice, Shelly Pope, Joy Morgan and Mary Ellen Anderson.
Slapstick antics drew loud laughs from the capacity audience in Wright Auditorium
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